BHT Sussex

We provide housing, and deliver support, specialist advice and guidance to people across Sussex.

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BHT Sussex

We provide housing, and deliver support, specialist advice and guidance to people across Sussex.

Combating Homelessness, Creating Opportunities, Promoting Change

BHT Sussex is a housing association and a homeless charity. We provide essential services across Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne and Hastings, as well as elsewhere in Sussex. We see it as our role to both challenge the causes of homelessness, poverty and marginalisation and to deal with the consequences.

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Our Service Areas

Work, Learning & Employment

Homelessness

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Addiction Services

Housing, Benefits & Legal Advice

Housing Services

News & Events

Tenancy Fraud Action Month launches next week

Housing Services are running Tenancy Fraud Action Month beginning on 20th April and are carrying out multiple initiatives to target tenancy fraud at BHT Sussex. Tenancy...
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BHT Sussex to exhibit clients’ work at Artists Open Houses in May

BHT Sussex will be taking part in Artists Open Houses 2026. We will showcase a powerful collection of our clients’ artwork in a public exhibition at...
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BHT Sussex celebrates end to Benefits Penalty for Supported Housing Residents

Campaigners are celebrating a major breakthrough that will end a long‑standing benefits anomaly which penalises people in supported housing when they move into work. BHT Sussex...
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Real life stories from BHT Sussex

Iva

BHT Sussex is one of the only Legal Aid providers in the South East, making the work of our Immigration Legal Service incredibly important. This service provides advice and representation for many people trying to claim asylum in the UK. As part of this service, we help and represent many minors who have arrived in the UK unaccompanied. This was the case with Iva. This is her story. Iva was kidnapped as a 15-year-old and brought to the UK by traffickers who intended to exploit her. She managed to escape from her trafficker when she arrived in the UK and … Read more